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dugout." Brooklyn College is only a short bus ride up Bedford Ave., but the change of locale brings a world of difference. Here, the coach has a chance to start from scratch. The college will be replacing tiny Monsignor Farrell Field with a new, million-dollar stadium in 2011, and Dumont wants the new digs to be home to a champion. Coaching in college also relieves Dumont of many of his former pressures. As a high school coach, Dumont had to spend much of his time at bake sales and other fund-raisers. Now, he no longer worries about how his team will pay its expenses; the Bulldogs have their uniform and equipment costs paid by Nike, and the college covers the rest. The change in his players' age has also made a difference. "I don't feel like a high school coach anymore," Dumont said. "At Madison, I had to teach them how to be studentathletes." College players already grasp the fundamentals and have the ability, Dumont said. He is just there to refine it. Already, he's helped the Bulldogs to get better; they finished the regular season 16-15-1 (7-7 CUNYAC). They'll open the conference playoffs as the fourth seed and face No.5 John Jay tomorrow. The coach could be displaying a facade, trying to appear relaxed simply because he has yet to find his place in the new organization. Dumont, for his part, said he sees little change. "I rarely yell during the games," he said. "Am I intense? Yes. I give directions and that's why I get paid." It was Danielle Maresca, Dumont's former player and assistant, who helped convince Dumont to leave. She graduated from Madison in 2007 and had just finished her first season with Brooklyn as a sophomore (she transferred from Hunter). "She's probably the reason I am here," Dumont said of Maresca. "She sort of prodded me, pushed me, nudged me." Dumont was taking control of a program that longed for his leadership, but he's the first person to say he was nervous. "I had major fears and doubts and all of those 'What am I doing?' moments," he said. The main source of his anxiety was the change in age group. He was no longer teaching 13-year-olds; now, he would coach women. To help make the adjustment, Dumont turned to his former players. In addition to Maresca, he coached senior Jenna Ferrara and freshman Danielle Brovokas. Dumont only serves as a hands-on coach to the pitchers. He offers encouragement or makes an occasional joke during practice, but he prefers to leave the instruction to assistant Frank Izzo, who also worked with him at Madison. When Maresca steps up to the plate, however, Dumont doesn't hold back, perhaps owing to the friendship they built at Madison. Dumont met Maresca before high school, when she participated in summer clinics that he ran as part of the Big Apple Games. "She'd play six hours a day in 90- degree heat," Dumont said. "We both love softball; we can each play 10 hours a day." Dumont has placed Maresca on a pedestal, but he said he's working to build bonds with others. Samantha Lombardi began practicing with him daily during the fall, and he said the commitment of Brown, a graduate Page 56 of 155
of Bishop Kearney HS, has been comparable to that of a Madison player. "He treats us all the same: He tells us we have to be little Dumonts," said Brown, a sophomore, describing the coach's interaction with the girls who didn't play for him in high school. Dumont may have altered his disposition, but his mentality is largely unchanged. He still promotes a feeling of family. He encourages the team to function as a clique, similar to the one that always existed among the softball players at Madison, and he's already secured approval to take the team to Walt Disney World next year, as he did each spring with his high school players. Dumont didn't really feel like the coach of the Bulldogs, he said, until he was approached by a player he hadn't already coached. "Samantha Lombardi said 'I want you to teach me like a Madison girl,'" he said. "And I said, 'Okay the gloves are off.' " At that moment, Dumont said, he started to feel like the coach he'd always been. Dumont grew up in Bensonhurst and attended Madison, and although he never played for the school, he played baseball for several travel teams in Brooklyn. He earned a Bachelor's degree in education at NYU, and later added Master's degrees from Brooklyn College and LIU. After he became a teacher at Madison, he hoped to begin coaching baseball, but the first job that opened up was with the JV softball team. Dumont jumped on it, thinking he'd later switch to baseball; soon, he realized that he felt more comfortable where he was. "I discovered softball was a hidden passion," he said. For years, Madison served as an outlet for Dumont to indulge the passion that he could not always share with his own family in Wantaugh, L.I. He tried to interest his sons, Scott and Brian, in baseball but said "they made it clear it wasn't for them." Brian, 15, prefers to play his guitar, and Scott, 19, is an honors student at Baruch College. Happily for Dumont, his 13-year-old daughter, Sarah, has developed a love for the sport. "She didn't know (she loved softball); she was brainwashed," Dumont said. "I gave her a softball instead of a rattle." Five years ago, Dumont founded the Long Island Greyhounds, a travel softball team, for Sarah, who's now in seventh grade. Dumont's wife, Barbara, never cared much for softball either, but Dumont said that she has developed a rooting interest. Dumont said he'd love to help mold Brooklyn College into a winner, but he was unable to say how long he'd stick with it. Trumping his passion for winning softball games, Dumont said, is his desire to watch his daughter grow up. That ultimately could be the main reason he would retire. "I want to see her play more," Dumont said of Sarah. "I can't (coach) forever." Page 57 of 155
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